CH 52 music outline

Where did Schoenberg teach in his later years?

University of California, Los Angeles

Dissonances do not always resolve to consonances in twentieth-century music.

true

Schoenberg devised a new way to organize sound called the "twelve-tone" method.

true

Schoenberg was born in

vienna

Which composer is associated with the Expressionist movement?

webern schoenberg berg

Schoenberg's most important students were

Alban Berg and Anton Webern.

Who established a system to give all twelve tones of the chromatic scale equal importance?

Arnold Schoenberg

Which statement does NOT describe dissonance in early-twentieth century music?

Dissonance was viewed as a temporary disturbance, resolving to consonance.

The art of _____, who is famous for his painting The Scream, influenced Arnold Schoenberg and his disciples.

Edvard Munch

Why did Schoenberg leave Berlin in 1933?

He left after Adolf Hitler came to power.

Which of the following is NOT associated with Pierrot lunaire?

Impressionism

Which describes Pierrot's actions in The Moonfleck?

Pierrot is disturbed by a white spot on the collar of his jet-black jacket.

Which is NOT true of the text of Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire?

Schoenberg used three poems from a collection of French Symbolist poetry.

What do the Impressionist and Expressionist composers have in common?

They were influenced by movements in painting

Music that rejects the framework of key is called

atonal

Klangfarbenmelodie is a technique in which

each note of a melodic line is played by a different instrument.

Which describes the instrumentation of Pierrot lunaire?

female vocalist and chamber ensemble of five players on eight instruments

From which phase of Schoenberg's compositional output does Pierrot lunaire originate?

his second period, atonal-Expressionism

Which of the following describes musical elements of Expressionism?

instruments in their extreme registers hyper-expressive harmonies extraordinarily wide leaps in melody

In which discipline of the arts did Expressionism originate?

painting

Which of the following describes Pierrot lunaire?

pushed boundaries of convention avant-garde experiments with sound

Which Baroque-era compositional technique is NOT used in The Moonfleck?

ritornello form

Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire is

song cycle

The German word Sprechstimme means

speechlike melody

In Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire, Pierrot is a(n)

troubled clown